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Does any one else find the site design frustrating? Constant top/bottom bars and a full window height of low-quality content before the article begins.

Straightforward and discreet, maybe.

That is interesting, thank you.

The piano outro played in the last few seconds was the Close Encounters of the Third Kind note sequence[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4PYI6TzqYk

Very interesting, thank you.

> They have a ton of insider information that nobody else does Are you willing and able to elaborate?

They may not directly sell user data, but their revenue derives from leasing targeted access to end-users filtered by insights drawn from said data.

> ps. also you're not being very helpful with "No, that's not what he's saying" without telling me what he is saying. > If anyone believes individual cashiers asking for maternity …

Your last sentence was straightforward, correct? (No sarcasm in the 'bias' section.) I ask because that fits with my reading of both the report and the rest of your comment, but a …

Architect of China’s ‘Great Firewall’ Bumps Into It https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/asia/china-internet...

Excellent comment, thank you for phrasing this so clearly.

> the loss of meaning of a word spoken one too many times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation

> And how many mountain ultramarathons are on flat ground? None, I bet. Seems like a safe bet.

> In the case of maps, there weren't many great alternatives for a long time, due to Google sucking all the oxygen/profit potential out of the field with their excellent free offer…

Amazon's brand registry enables a verified brand to take control of a listing page (edit photos/text/title). That's pretty much it – no power to limit other sellers.

"In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to points in a specific subset of the plane." [0] Here, the points are airports. Ther…

> We're a nonsensical investment for a standard VC, sure. Maybe there's a venture investment philosophy for non-unicorns. [0] [0] https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-r…

> What we've yet to see in history is a corporation that directly and openly challenges a state for sovereignty. I think you're correct, but the East India Company came pretty clos…

> Rate limiting on a specific username will prevent brute forcing but exposes you to DOS. Why?

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/fitzgerald... [PDF]

"Why spend a short life in the real world of sadness and absurdity when you could live forever in paradise?" https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183

> There needs to be some reason to do it. Some idea that the source material does that hasn't already been done to death in film. Or some capability of the new format. Pulling stan…

" How has this affected open source efforts? " can be read as either Why is it possible for [situation] to affect open source efforts? or In what way(s) has [situation] affected op…